Housing Production Strategies
Description
Today, we will examine a range of housing production strategies, many that involve public-private partnerships or incentives to deliver affordable housing. We’ll also talk about the Opportunity Zone program which leverages tax benefits to investors for investments in eligible underinvested neighborhoods.
Learning Goals
- Understand why governments might incentivize capital investment in distressed neighborhoods.
- Critically engage with policy debates regarding the benefits and costs of place-based capital incentives.
Readings
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Overview
How Real Estate Developers Make More Profit off of Low-Income Housing
How Investors Exploit Opportunity Zones
Schwartz
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 7